Last Monday, we had a crazy day. A day that I will remember for awhile, a day full of gratitude, a day we were all blessed by the hand of the Lord in our Lives.
They day started off abnormally when our children slept in until 8:20. Anyone who knows my children, know that sleeping-in from them is 7AM, so a weird start to the morning, we had a busy morning, getting Tuck ready for School, cleaning up the house, and etc.
I was just walking out the door taking Tuck to the Neighbors house to be carpooled to school, when the carbon-monoxide alarm started to go off. I just assumed it was the batteries going out, so I took the boys across the street, and came back home, to change the batteries before I brought Tru back home. I just wanted to make it safe. As I was changing the upstairs alarm, the downstairs alarm started to sound. I wasn’t sure if it was just coincidence, or what, so I changed the downstairs batteries too, and then borrowed my neighbors plug in the wall alarm. All three began sounding at the same time. I new then, that this didn’t have to do with batteries. I have great neighbors/friends. Jamie took Tru to Diana house, (Diana had playgroup at her house, and gladly took Truman), then went to double check on Tucker at preschool, to make sure he was feeling okay. What Good Friends.
After a few phone calls, I finally got ahold of the nice gentlemen at the fire station. One of whom came right down, in his firetruck. He came into the house, and put his detectors in, our bottom family room, walked out, left it 2 minutes. He went back in to checked it, and already the levels were at 17. (which is high). He usually waits for the complete reading after 5 minutes, but because our Alarms were going off, he figured they were high. Because of the levels, he called Questar Gas Company, told me to stay out of the house, and so that is what I did.
I waited for a little over an hour, until the gas man came. He came with his special sniffers, and between him and the furnace guy, it turns out we didn’t have enough ventilation going into our furnace room. We were finally able to return to the house, close the doors and windows, turn our furnace back on and try to return to normal life about 5 PM.
We were just grateful to be alive, and encourage all of our loved ones to purchase Carbon Monoxide Monitors.
We want everyone to be healthy and safe.